BLAST FROM THE PAST: City staff discovered a demonstration device for a mechanical lever voting machine used in Hillsdale in the 1950-60s gathering dust in the attic of City Hall.
The engraved name plate on the front of the device says it was manufactured by the Automatic Voting Machine Corporation of Jamestown, New York.
The demonstration device is made of grey-painted metal and has white paper tabs imprinted with the names of the candidates to be selected by functional levers. The model is flat and has a fold-out support that swivels out of the back to stand it on a table. It would be available at the polling place for poll workers to show voters how to place their votes before they entered the privacy of the large voting booth, which was shielded by a curtain that opened and closed when the main lever to cast the votes was pulled.
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